Another important question is "Who pays for each of those figures?".
The user obviously "pays" for the $235 dollars in TCO, but if the government/industry is the one paying for the $4650 then we have a disconnection between the interested parties, which could make it harder to convince the consumers to adopt this technology.
Although their military capacity is still to be "proven", I bet they would be able to *at least* disrupt/delay oil vessels going through the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strait_of_Hormuz
"Mr. Obama decided to accelerate the attacks — begun in the Bush administration and code-named Olympic Games — even after an element of the program accidentally became public in the summer of 2010 because of a programming error that allowed it to escape Iran’s Natanz plant and sent it around the world on the Internet. Computer security experts who began studying the worm, which had been developed by the United States and Israel, gave it a name: Stuxnet. "
I'm pretty sure drone A. I. is going to be vastly better at air combat maneuvering quite soon. Keep in mind that a plane without a human on board doesn't have to respect the body limits regarding g-force.
The way I see it, humans have the edge on 1-on-1 fight, so then you could just default your drone to follow him as best as it can, even if it ends up in a "draw". Once you start going X vs X, the drones can communicate practically instantly with the whole network, much faster than the humans, and that IMO is a decisive factor (not considering the g-force limitations that the drones don't have).
Let's pretend for a second that tomorrow we find that the core of the moon is made of Unobtanium (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unobtanium).
Do you think it's fair that all that material would be "up for grabs" and that thus only the very rich would be able to explore it, becoming then even richer? What would happen when then two groups go up there and start to fight for a share of the resources? And what if those groups are from different nations, say one is American and the other is Russian? What would happen then?
Well, having the source code is not the cause for malwares, code that is full of bugs is the cause. Considering this, we could say that Linux wouldn't have malwares even if it were closed source, and that XP would have malwares even if it were open source, as long as the "code quality" was the same as the current one.
Which is why you need to heed warnings about deadlines well in advance - these SCADA issues wouldn't have been a problem if planning had started two years ago rather than now.
Microsoft had publicized these deadlines ever since the product was released. This is not the news here: the news is that a lot of people are still using the system. Serious companies that rely on Windows XP for their business have always known that support would end in 2014, and so have factored that into account.
It's the retribution. For years we've been Slashdotting all these websites who had some cool content to show us. Now it's time for retribution and Slashdot all the reader's computers.
And what exactly makes you think they will be less advanced than us? I mean it could possibly be, I'm just curious if there's a reason or not. Because what I first thought was that anyone else would likely be more advanced than us.
But 1000 years from now, observers in a planet 1000 light-years away will be receiving our current transmissions, in their very "old and inefficient" modulations.
Slashdot Mirror
I know it's a different one, but still oblig:
http://xkcd.com/695/
As long as he takes that picture with an actual Lumia 920...
Another important question is "Who pays for each of those figures?".
The user obviously "pays" for the $235 dollars in TCO, but if the government/industry is the one paying for the $4650 then we have a disconnection between the interested parties, which could make it harder to convince the consumers to adopt this technology.
(sarcasm)
Well I have these BITCOINS I've been hoarding...
(/sarcasm)
Although their military capacity is still to be "proven", I bet they would be able to *at least* disrupt/delay oil vessels going through the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strait_of_Hormuz
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/06/01/world/middleeast/obama-ordered-wave-of-cyberattacks-against-iran.html?_r=3&pagewanted=2&seid=auto&smid=tw-nytimespolitics&pagewanted=all
"Mr. Obama decided to accelerate the attacks — begun in the Bush administration and code-named Olympic Games — even after an element of the program accidentally became public in the summer of 2010 because of a programming error that allowed it to escape Iran’s Natanz plant and sent it around the world on the Internet. Computer security experts who began studying the worm, which had been developed by the United States and Israel, gave it a name: Stuxnet. "
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YQIMGV5vtd4
I'm pretty sure drone A. I. is going to be vastly better at air combat maneuvering quite soon. Keep in mind that a plane without a human on board doesn't have to respect the body limits regarding g-force.
The way I see it, humans have the edge on 1-on-1 fight, so then you could just default your drone to follow him as best as it can, even if it ends up in a "draw". Once you start going X vs X, the drones can communicate practically instantly with the whole network, much faster than the humans, and that IMO is a decisive factor (not considering the g-force limitations that the drones don't have).
Yeah, too many injections and bam!;-- DROP dead.
Yeah. The boat is flooding, but let's not stop rowing! Don't mind the water, we need to get to the shore!
Amazing post. GJ.
Let's pretend for a second that tomorrow we find that the core of the moon is made of Unobtanium (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unobtanium).
Do you think it's fair that all that material would be "up for grabs" and that thus only the very rich would be able to explore it, becoming then even richer? What would happen when then two groups go up there and start to fight for a share of the resources? And what if those groups are from different nations, say one is American and the other is Russian? What would happen then?
Things are not that simple.
Right, like there are asteroids within reasonable distance from the earth with minerals that we need passing by every day...
Depends on how fast you intend to do it. For the human body it's all about acceleration, the speed doesn't really matter.
Well, having the source code is not the cause for malwares, code that is full of bugs is the cause. Considering this, we could say that Linux wouldn't have malwares even if it were closed source, and that XP would have malwares even if it were open source, as long as the "code quality" was the same as the current one.
Which is why you need to heed warnings about deadlines well in advance - these SCADA issues wouldn't have been a problem if planning had started two years ago rather than now.
Microsoft had publicized these deadlines ever since the product was released. This is not the news here: the news is that a lot of people are still using the system. Serious companies that rely on Windows XP for their business have always known that support would end in 2014, and so have factored that into account.
It's the retribution. For years we've been Slashdotting all these websites who had some cool content to show us. Now it's time for retribution and Slashdot all the reader's computers.
Finally a prediction for something interesting that will happen while I'm (hopefully) still alive!
Wait. It's from Fox News! So maybe they actually did manage to create those wings and fly!
We all know that it was the love for Liv Tyler that destroyed that asteroid. We need to save her too.
And what exactly makes you think they will be less advanced than us? I mean it could possibly be, I'm just curious if there's a reason or not. Because what I first thought was that anyone else would likely be more advanced than us.
But 1000 years from now, observers in a planet 1000 light-years away will be receiving our current transmissions, in their very "old and inefficient" modulations.
Two things you didn't consider:
1) Not all those passengers went through security. I expect a reasonable percentage to be in transit and thus not required to go through security.
2) Not all the passengers that would go through security would have brought bottles to be scanned.
but 40 hours really isn't difficult. You have time to sleep, eat, shower, shop, and even post on Slashdot.
Yeah, but after doing all that my boss still wants me to find time in those 40 hours to do some work!
Or those other activities you mentioned together with "post on Slashdot" should be off work activities?
Less pain? That wrench is looking pretty good to me considered the pain I would likely suffer inside an American prison...